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 * Please enter each** **Post IT note, according to the topic and number of dots.**


 * Ex:** **Organizational Change Policies: 19 dots** **and then list each stickie comment.**


 * These comments** **are proactive solutions to overcoming a barrier or restraint that informs your role as a coach in the reculturing schools around 21st Century change.**

Change: 16 dots Most project-based learning activites can be aligned to PA standards, which will help prepare for PSSAs. Teach students the process. Be lenient with results at first. Access to Google Aps. We explored alternatives and looked into Gaggle. Gives students access to online document sharing, message boards, digital lockers, etc., in a safe environment. If teachers shift instruction to foster 21st Century Skills, the PSSA will take care of itself. Peer Observation - this helps teachers share. Use "compliment sandwiches" to give constructive criticism. Hiring new teachers who are tech savvy and eager to use tech tools. Resistance is Futile. Bribe the teachers to use technology (I go out once a week to Subway or Chinese to listen to your spiel." Students - Infuse digital literacy/citizenship into curriculum. Coaches are catalysts for change. Don't dwell on the negatives - do something to change the problem. Assign students roles in collaboration process that they are responsible for. Switch the roles each day/week to keep the learning going.

Infrastructure - 14 dots A keyboard - how quaint. Use Google Apps for school/district. Adminstrators can disable parts that are not supported in AUP. Docs will be secure to those with apps school account. Google Docs - Google Apps for Education. Hosted local, turn off email. . can only share inside domain. State standard for content filtering in school districts. Why does one district allow something another will not? Youtube - Keepvid. Download video to hard drive. Most valuable Youtube content is available elsewhere. Or use Keepvid or Zamzar to get videos from home. Give administration privileges to coaches to download certain software/tools on teacher/student computer. We added a second access point to all labs. Select teachers have admin rights in overriding.

Funding - 5 dots EETT money to pay teachers for summer training. Put the antique desks on ebay under "collectibles." Use the big money to buy technology.

Organizational change policies - 7 dots Technology dept. - do the research on the technology that you want to use. Have the data to back up your cause. Change in technology administrator to student/teacher friendly policies.

Time - 11 dots Live long and prosper. Time - lunch talks, open workshops during the school day. If time is a problem, consider lunch study groups. What about meeting people during hall duty? Meet with administrators- Ask for at least to be invited to one meeting a month. Use that time as training time.

Support System - 0 dots

Classroom Management - 8 dots PSSA - Create assignments or lessons to prepare students - more globally not locally per class. Train TEACHERS in classroom management involving technology use. There are differences between a traditional classroom setting and a technology-using classroom. Assign parts for on-task participation. Student barriers - instruct students during "non" instructional times (study halls) with proper ways to use technology. Wandering students - Visions monitoring software.

Communication - 19 dots IT directors and coaches from each IU meet to discuss issues and solutions. Weekly meetings with IT department and building principals. "Hailing Frequencies Open." Find better ways to "advertise" to classroom teachers that have difficult integrating technology. Communication between teachers and administration important. Require justification for not allowing tools. Technology (Integration and IT) committee meetings Create any real time communication tools for staff to interact with technology integration. Develop a panel for making decisions on technology (come up with solutions together and stick to the outcome)

Administration/Leadership - 27 dots Include administrators in new technology professional development; give them new technologies to use and evaluate. Educate restrictive tech directors on the realities of educational technology and myths of use. Create an Admin/Tech directors PLN that can share policies/procedures on how to address unblocking/using Web 2.0 tools. Research data that supports PBL and benefits to educate admin and tech staff, possibly teachers as well. Do you have a technology committee that can override some of these decisions? Teacher determines appropriate web sites - not tech director. WIFI is being replaced and it will get better. Just a matter of time. Get new administrators (offer early retirement) with a new vision. Have an administrator help you clearly define your role to the staff. Teachers don't know what they don't know. Tell them. That's your job as a coach. Work with principals to revise learning walk or observation look-fors. These are stuck in the past. State training for IT Professionals. In Instruction most IT people have no educational background. Get to know your board policies. What people are saying "no" to "because of policy" may not have any validity. Collaborate with other districts that allow Google docs and hopefully convince IT dept. to allow them. Restrictive technology coordinator - share with other districts that are successful with open technology versus staying secluded.

Collaboration - 19 dots Union issues, try offering comp or flex time to teachers if they are willing to stay and participate in trainings Union - we give Act 48 credit for getting training outside of school day Use technology (google forms for equipment sign-out) to free some of your time Teachers willing to assist and train other teachers Smaller staffing - administration could add common tech planning, even 30 minutes, to teacher schedules Share outs, class walks, class visits Communication - people need to recognize their own limitations and ask for help if it is required.

PD - 20 dots After hours and Saturday sessions might help. Educate politicians, in order to get mandates that make schools all provide adccess to the same technology opportunities. Get teachers involved in providing trainings. Our continuing mission - to explore strange new worlds. Use facilating


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